As architects are trained in the art of building, light, materials, and space, they often develop a talent for photography. The AIA Architectural Photography Competition, sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter of the AIA, celebrated these talents, picking three top photographs and commending many others. The first place, “Soho Snow” by Ryan Barnacastle, is a classic black and white [...]
The Royal Institute of British Architects might be a tough crowd to please (the London chair recently resigned in the face of a “no confidence” vote — meow!) but its taste is unimpeachable.
Each year the organization awards accolades to a host of British architects for their built work in the field, seeking the edifice that [...]
The New Yorker’s resident architecture critic Paul Goldberger takes on investment banking giant Goldman Sachs in his latest column, and boy are we not disappointed. Goldberger sets the scene, appropriately enough, with some financial nitty-gritty:
“There was not a lot of development going on in lower Manhattan, and Goldman’s plans appear to have sent city and state [...]
Abigail Carlen of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture tipped us off to the most stellar video archive of architect interviews, circa the 1970s and ’80s. Duke University Libraries did the world a favor in posting the interviews, hosted by the spectacularly named arts advocate Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.
Barb chats with Edward Larrabee Barnes about designing art museums, Peter Eisenman [...]
A Norwegian residential project caught our eye this morning for its simplified proportions that reduce domestic architecture to its elements. ONOFFICE, based in Portugal, arranged the 4 Houses domicile like a child’s drawing: four stacked houses awash in basic white, with symmetrical pitched roofs and plain, square openings instead of casement windows.
Rather than dividing the neighborhood [...]
The big news moving down the pipeline this morning (and blowing up our Twitter feed) is the announcement of four finalists for the expansion of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. SFMOMA tapped the four to submit proposals for its new wing, a proposed 150,000 square feet of space with a budget of $250 million.
The [...]
Norway’s Snøhetta may have built some of the most buzzed-about buildings of the last decade, but don’t call them starchitects. Principals Craig Dykers and Kjetil Traedal Thorsen maintain a purposefully low profile, preferring to let their crisp, cantilevered Scandinavian designs speak for themselves and share the accolades with their team, split between Oslo and New York.
Dykers [...]
The redesign of Lincoln Center has been heralded as a vast improvement over its somewhat severe modernist forebearer. Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXFOWLE and Beyer Blinder Belle have made the design a more engaging experience to the pedestrian. Photographer Paul Clemence sent us some beautiful shots of the newly rehabbed Lincoln Center Promenade.
The [...]
We just caught word that the Archigram Archival Project is up and online now. Head over and check it out.
For the uninitiated:
The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the [...]
Nestled in the corner of New York’s starchitect row, Jean Nouvel’s 100 11th Avenue manages to stand out despite some adjacent aesthetic competition.
Paul Clemence sent us some shots of the building he took recently. Nouvel has described the building as a ‘vision machine’ and it is easy to see why.
The facade has been described as [...]
